Word: ike
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Died. Dr. Paul Dudley White, 87, pioneer heart specialist and President Eisenhower's chief cardiologist after Ike's 1955 heart attack (see MEDICINE...
...then belonged to the likes of Dick Tracy and Mary Worth. But Pogo was a smash. At its peak, the strip appeared in nearly 500 papers. The self-effacing possum made a major splash on the national scene in 1952, when college students parodied the Republicans' "I Like Ike" slogan by chanting "I Go Pogo." After a national write-in campaign, Pogo gracefully conceded the election to Eisenhower. Kelly introduced an unshaven wildcat named Simple J. Malarkey, who resembled the then-rampant Joe McCarthy and abused civil liberties in Okefenokee. Nikita Khrushchev appeared as a grumpy pig. Portraits...
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West is no tattletale. Nothing here to set tongues clucking, despite the author's dutiful one-paragraph references to the sleeping habits of the various presidential couples. (The Eisenhowers were the only pair to share a bedroom, "so I can reach over and pat Ike's old bald head any time I want to," Mamie once explained...
...with low horizons of brown hill or gray water, a wind incessantly prying at the boards of the creaky frame houses, it is the soil from which virtue is meant to grow; even the pumpkin on Wyeth's fence post, if pumpkins could vote, would have voted for Ike. "Wyeth country"-the Pennsylvania farm land around Chadds Ford, where he spends the winter, and the summer acreage in Maine-has become landscape as myth or monument by now, the American middlebrow's equivalent of Cezanne's Mont-Ste.-Victoire or Monet's lily ponds at Giverny...